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Dahomey and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

by Robin C. Law

Slave trade, africaAfrica, historyGreat britain, foreign relations, africaAfrica, foreign relationsCorrespondenceSourcesSlave tradeDiaries

The British Vice-Consulate for the kingdom of Dahomey was established to suppress the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The documents collected here comprise principally of the journals of the Vice-Consul, Louis Fraser, which provide valuable insights into British policy on the slave trade.

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